[Python-ideas] Experiment: Adding "re" to string objects.

[Sean Reifschneider]

On 07/21/2009 03:16 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> It also just occurred to me that string interning completely destroys
> any concept of storing mutable attributes on strings:

So that would prevent "re" from being added to strings, right?  Is there
some way around that?  I can't think of one, beyond making a sub-class like
I've done in the filtertools example...

Which kind of makes the whole idea fall down, because the benefit of having
it directly in strings is that you don't then have to use a bunch of
different APIs like "file.rereadlines()" or "re.readlines(fp)" or
"re.open('filename')" or "re.file(fp)"...  At that point, I wonder if it
makes more sense to put the match() and group() methods on the refile
object instead of on the string it returns.

Opinions?

Sean
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